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| Apple Bramley's Seedling | Apple Red Delicious | Apple Honeycrisp | Cherry Schauenburger | Apple Doctor Matthews | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | Bramley's Seedling is the definitive English cooking apple. It produces heavy crops of large apples with a sharp acidic flavour, which cook down to a smooth puree. | One of the most famous American apple varieties, a sport of Delicious, known for its bright red color. | Sometimes marketed as Honey Crisp or Honeycrunch, this is a crisp, and predominantly sweet, modern variety from the USA. It was developed by the University of Minnesota specifically for growers in cold climates, and is one of the most cold-hardy of apple varieties. | Heart-shaped. Firm, sweet, acid and aromatic. Skin colour is brownish-black. | Red and red-striped skin with fine crisp, juicy, creamy flesh. It has a mild but aromatic flavor. An excellent keeper. |
Identification | Bramley's Seedling | Red Delicious | Honeycrisp | Schauenburger | Doctor Matthews |
| Fruit colour | Green | Red | Red | Mahogany | |
| Flesh colour | White | White to Cream, pale yellow | |||
| Fruit size | Very large | Medium | |||
| Fruit shape | Flat-round | Short-round-conical | |||
Using | Bramley's Seedling | Red Delicious | Honeycrisp | Schauenburger | Doctor Matthews |
| Flavor | Very good | Good | |||
| Flavour style | Sharper | Sweeter | |||
| Ripening period | Mid-Late season | Mid-Late season | Early-Mid season | ||
| Use/Keeping | 3 months or more | 3 months or more | |||
| Cooking result | Puree | ||||
Growing | Bramley's Seedling | Red Delicious | Honeycrisp | Schauenburger | Doctor Matthews |
| Picking | |||||
| Cropping | Heavy | Heavy | Heavy | ||
| Vigour | Very large | Average growth | Weak growing | ||
| Pollination | Flowering group 3 Flowers Mid-Late season Self-sterile Blossom frost-resistance | Flowering group 4 Flowers Mid-Late season Self-sterile | Flowering group 4 Self-sterile | Flowering group 2 Flowers Early-Mid season Self-sterile | |
| Gardening skill | Average | ||||
| Problems | Scab - Very resistant Mildew - Some resistance Fireblight - Some resistance Cedar apple rust - Some resistance Bitter pit - Some susceptibility | Scab - Some susceptibility Mildew - Some resistance Fireblight - Some resistance Cedar apple rust - Very resistant | Scab - Very resistant Mildew - Some susceptibility Fireblight - Some resistance Cedar apple rust - Some susceptibility Bitter pit - Some susceptibility | Fruit splitting - Very susceptible | |
Other | Bramley's Seedling | Red Delicious | Honeycrisp | Schauenburger | Doctor Matthews |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom | United States | United States | United States | United States |
| Other qualities | Awards 1993 |